THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY CONKLIN, JUNE 22, 2010

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 22, 2010  

AN ACT

Amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, providing for toll exemptions.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Title 74 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes is amended by adding a chapter to read:

CHAPTER 85

OTHER TOLL ROADS

Sec.

8501.  Toll exemptions.

§ 8501.  Toll exemptions.

(a)  Exemption.--The following vehicles shall be exempt from

paying a toll to travel on any Pennsylvania toll road except as

provided in subsection (b):

(1)  A vehicle used by a Pennsylvania resident to commute

to the resident's place of employment on a near daily basis.

(2)  A vehicle registered in Pennsylvania and owned or

operated by a trucking company with corporate headquarters

registered in Pennsylvania.

(b)  Limitations.--This section shall not apply to the

following:

(1)  The Pennsylvania Turnpike.

(2)  Any toll road created before the effective date of

this section.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.